The following definitions apply to this part:

1. (1) “Commission” means the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission;
2. (2) “Director” means the Director of the Division of Environmental Quality, or his or her designee, unless the context dictates otherwise;
3. (3) “Discharge” means a discharge of any wastes in any manner which directly or indirectly permits such wastes to reach any of the waters of the state;

4. (4) "Disposal" means the final use of waste, including, but not limited to:

   1. (A) Surface disposal;
   2. (B) Subsurface disposal;
   3. (C) Transport to a recycling or reuse facility; or
   4. (D) Placement in a landfill, incinerator, or injection well;
5. (5) "Division" means the Division of Environmental Quality, or its successor;
6. (6) “Facility” or “system” means any site, including land or appurtenances thereto, or activity or operation that is subject to this part;
7. (7) “Industrial waste” means any liquid, gaseous, or solid waste substance resulting from any process of industry, mining, manufacturing, trade, or business, or from the development of any natural resources;

8. (8)

   1. (A) “Other wastes” means garbage, municipal refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, lime, sand, ashes, offal, oil, tar chemicals, and all other organic or inorganic substances, not including sewage or industrial waste which may be discharged into the waters of the state.
   2. (B) “Any wastes” and “pollutants” include sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes;

9. (9)

   1. (A) “Owner” or “operator” means any person (an individual, association, partnership, corporation, municipality, state, or federal agency) who has the primary management and ultimate decision-making responsibility over the operation of a facility or activity.
   2. (B) The operator is responsible for ensuring compliance with all applicable environmental rules and regulations and conditions;

10. (10) “Person” means any:

    1. (A) State agency;
    2. (B) Municipality;
    3. (C) Governmental subdivision of the state or the United States;
    4. (D) Public or private corporation;
    5. (E) Individual;
    6. (F) Partnership;
    7. (G) Association; or
    8. (H) Other entity;
11. (11) “Sewage” means the water-carried waste products from residences, public buildings, institutions, or other buildings, including excrementitious or other discharge from the bodies of humans or animals, together with such groundwater infiltration and surface water as may be present;

12. (12) “Storage” means holding wastes prior to disposal in:

    1. (A) An open pit or pond dug in the ground;
    2. (B) Open tanks; or
    3. (C) Other open vessel;
13. (13) “Waste” means industrial waste, sewage, or other wastes; and
14. (14) “Waters of the state” means all streams, lakes, marshes, ponds, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through, or border upon this state or any portion of the state.